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Actually no.
I have the built-in (Alora theme) lightbox enabled; and still, it’s working properly now.
The only thing I had to do to get everything working was to add the “Royal PrettyPhoto” plugin.
My understanding is that Alora uses this invisibly; and the built-in version was not linking the images as a gallery set; but by manually adding the “Royal PrettyPhoto” plugin and enabling it, this (for some reason) does correct this issue.
You might want to have a look at this requirement, since I’m sure you never intended this.
I finally solved this issue.
I had to contact the Jetpack people – and they (Jeremy) pointed out that the Alora theme uses a “PrettyPhoto” plugin to handle galleries. So I did a search and found one called “Royal PrettyPhoto” – which I then installed; and this fixed the issues I was having with posting a gallery via email or by hand.
I also disabled Alora’s own Lightbox and then reenabled it ‘testing for differences; and there is not any apparent difference on the front end.
In any case – after several days fighting with this issue..
Now the images are properly tied together as a gallery.
I suggest you look into this.
Here’s a link to the final forum exchange (for Jetpack) – where the final solution was uncovered.
Something new I just discovered.
To begin, I decided to disable Jetpack’s Tiled Gallery option, and instead installed another plugin “Tiled Galleries Carousel Without Jetpack” ‘that is described by the author as..
Transform your standard image galleries into an immersive full-screen experience without Jetpack.This plugin is made from Jetpack Modules. You can get the tiled galleries with Full screen carousel with out connecting to wordpress.com account.
I am running this with Jetpack enabled, but the Tiled Galleries Jetpack feature disabled.
I am getting another result that suggests there is a theme-related component to this issue.
Here’s a 3-min screen capture movie that shows what I did and what I am now getting.
In brief..
Using “Tiled Galleries Carousel Without Jetpack” and the 2013 theme, I created a gallery by hand – it worked.
Then I switched back to the Alora theme, and without changing the page ‘I reloaded the preview, and the images in the gallery were no longer linked as a single gallery (as before) – in other words, each masonary gallery thumb on the front end would link only to that clicked image ‘with no next/prev behavior.
Wouldn’t this be a them-related issue?
I also tried it with the 2015 theme – same thing.
I’ll try asking the Jetpack people instead.
Nope – I tried it with the WP 2013 theme and my results are pretty much the same.
After I switched to 2013 ‘I posted using Postie with several images.
One thing I noticed after observing these test results (when I later switched back to my normal “Alora” theme)..
The resulting Tiled Gallery post – when I click one of the front-end gallery thumbnails – pops up the following error message..
BTW – I’m not sure I was clear about the issue, which is in two parts.
Part 1: Galleries created by hand, or when posted via email (with Jetpack’s Tiled Galleries enabled) do not behave like a gallery set – in other words, each image requires a click on it’s own thumbnail in the resulting generated tiled mosaic to view it; next/previous does not apply ‘although it is supposed to.
Part 2: Galleries, when posted by email (with Jetpack’s Tiled Galleries enabled) connect to the Attachment Page ‘rather then to the image file.
I just wanted to be sure you understand the bad behaviors here as I see them.
Thank you Roman – that will work.
Although it’s my hope that in future versions of the theme you will implement something like Background Manager ‘that is integrated into the Alora theme ‘like you did with the different banner/slideshows.
As Background Manager is now no longer under further development, maybe you should see if you can pick it up from him? It’s just a thought.
Thanks again for the assistance.
I still have to switch over to WP 2015 (theme) to set the background images; but at least now I can change the underlay color from the individual pages and the customizer page.
Many thanks for figuring this out for me.
Right – I already knew that I could select either a color or an image (but not both); and that’s why I’m using the Background Manager plugin I mentioned – because I need to be able to do more than just one image OR a color choice for the backgrounds.
However, the background manager plugin is not playing nice with your theme.
And since the Background Manager plugin is no longer being supported I thought you might have thoughts or suggestions on how to accomplish the following..
On a per-page basis: I need to have background images with transitions, including overlay choices, and a background color (with image opacity settings ‘to reveal the underlying background color).
You don’t offer this in the current theme itself; but my hope is you’ll be able to offer a fix – maybe via a custom function – that would enable inserting of third-party background plugins, and that will override (replace) your Alora background image and color overrides.
Here’s a (7min 23sec) screen capture movie to demonstrate the issues I am experiencing with the custom background plugin and the Alora theme.
BTW: Thank you for the attention to detail ‘evident throughout this theme.
Bravo !!!